Venetian blind tape



Dec. 19, 1950 R, VOGEL 2,534,642

VENETIAN BLIND TAPE Filed June 16, 1947 /0 r /z w /4- I 4. p 5 .Z' 7- 5.a k I fi' RoZerZ 1 5582 U u WW5 Patented Dec. 19, 1950 UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE VENETIAN BLIND TAPE Robert Vogel, New York, N. Y.

Application June 16, 1947, Serial No. 754,983

3 Claims. (Cl. 1601 78) This invention relates to Venetian blind tapes.

At the present time Venetian blind tapes which support the slats areusually formed of fabric with narrow staggered straps secured betweenthe two tapes to form a ladder. It is an object of this invention toprovide a tape construction which is formed out of flexible plasticmaterial, so that the tape will not wrinkle, and so that thetape may beformed of colored material which will not discolor or fade, and can beeasily cleaned.

Another object of this invention is to provide a tape construction ofthis kind wherein the slat supporting members are struck from one of thepair of tapes and adhesively or otherwise secured to the inner side ofthe other tape.

In a modified form of this invention, the tape from which the laddersupporting members are struck has secured to the inner side thereof, andbetween the slat supporting members, a reinforcing fabric tape or ribbonwhich may have the same or different color of the plastic tape.

With the above and other objects in View, my invention consists in thearrangement, combination and details of construction disclosed in thedrawings and specification, and then more particularly pointed out inthe appended claims.

In the drawing,

Figure l is a perspective view, partly broken away and in section, of aVenetian blind tape construction constructed according to an embodimentof this invention,

Figure 2 is a fragmentary perspective view of one of the tape membersfrom which the slat supporting straps are struck,

Figure 3 is a fragmentary side elevation of the tape construction,

Figure 4 is a fragmentary perspective view, partly in section, of amodified form of tape construction,

Figure 5 is a fragmentary perspective view of a modified form of outerstrap.

Referring to the drawing, the numerals I0 and II designate generally apair of elongated tapemembers which in the present instance are formedout of plastic material. This plastic material may be either transparentor colored, as may be desired.

The tape member II is adapted to have struck or cut therefrom as alongtwo sides and one end of cut portions to form a plurality of slatsupporting straps I2 which are formed at their free or cut ends withright angular portions I 3 adapted to be adhesively or otherwise firmlysecured to the inner side of the tape member I I.

In practice the right angle end portions I3 01' the slat supportingstraps are adapted to be electronically or otherwise secured to theinner side of the tape It. These slat supporting straps are struck fromthe strap member II in two rows, being staggered from each other.

By providing a plastic tape II from which the slat supporting straps arestruck, these supporting members may be more accurately positioned onerelative to the other, so that the blind slats will be accurately spacedfrom each other. In Figure 2 there is shown the blank tape II from whichthe slat supporting straps I2 are struck.

Referring now to Figure 4, there is disclosed a slightly modified formof this invention wherein the tape member Ila which has the slatsupporting straps I211 struck therefrom in two parallel rows spacedapart a slight distance, has secured to the inner side thereof a fabricreinforcing strip or tape I4. This reinforcing strip or tape I4 may beadhesively or otherwise firmly secured to the inner side of the tapemember IIa between the two rows of supporting straps I 2a and may becolored the same color as the color of the tape IIa or if desired may bea differentiating color. By providing the reinforcing strip or tape I4,the plastic tape member Ila will be held against stretching in additionto being reinforced to prevent cracking or other injury to the tapemember IIa.

With a tape construction as hereinbefore described, the tapes supportingthe slats can be more readily thoroughly cleaned than fabric tapes, andthrough the provision of the plastic material the color will not fadeafter the tapes have been in use as is the case with colored fabrictapes. These tapes are adapted to be secured to the Venetian blindassembly in substantially the same manner as the fabric tapes, and theelevating and lowering ropes or strings are adapted to engage betweenthe rows of slat supporting members.

With reference to the tape member II shown in Figure 2, which is joinedto member ID, as shown in Figure l, a preferred method of joining thestraps I2 to member I8 is to place the member I i while in fiat positionon top of member I0, then electronically weld the straps I2 to memberIt). When the ladders or members III are thus joined, absolute accuracyand registry of IO and I! is obtained.

With reference to the reinforcin strip I4 shown in Figure 4 as appliedcentrally of member I I, it will be understood that similar stripsjoined in the same manner can be applied along the outer sides of memberII as Well as along the longitudinally extending sides of member ll],preferably in such case on the inner side or in brief, the sides of thetwo tapes I and H which face each other when in assembled relation, asillustrated in Figure 5.

I do not mean to confine myself to the exact details of constructionherein disclosed, but claim all variations falling within the purview ofthe appended claims.

What I claim is:

1. A Venetian blind tape construction comprising a pair of elongatedparallel tapes, one of said tapes having two rows of horizontally andvertically spaced apart slat supporting straps cut from said one tapealong two sides and one end, the opposite ends of said straps being integral with said tape, and said one end of said straps being fixed tothe inner side of the other of said tapes to form a ladder-likeconstruction.

2. A Venetian blind tape construction comprising a first elongated tapeand a second elongated tape, said second tape having two horizontallyspaced apart rows of vertically disposed slat supporting straps cut fromsaid one tape along two sides and one end, the opposite ends of saidstraps being integral with said tape, and

.4 said one end of said straps being fixed to the inner side of theother of said tapes, each of said straps being spaced vertically fromthe adjacent straps in the same row and from the adjacent straps in theother row to form a ladder-like construction.

3. A Venetian blind construction comprising a pair of elongated paralleltapes, one of said tapes being formed with two parallel spaced apartrows of staggered slat supporting straps cut from said one tape alongtwo sides and one end, the opposite ends of said straps being integralwith said tape, and said one end of said straps being secured to theinner side of the other of said tapes to form a ladder-likeconstruction.

ROBERT VOGEL.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file ofthis patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 2,123,817 Warren July 12, 19382,405,579 Hunter Aug. 13, 1946 2,457,442 Brent Dec. 28, 1948

